Use Case: Let's say, you already have an index on one Server1 and you want to create a new index with the exact structure on Server2 . What you should do? Solution: 1. Copy the index structure from Server1 . Let's say your index name is: product-data-index and you can access the settings here: https://x.x.x.x:9200/product-data-index/_settings { "product-data-index" : { "settings" : { "index" : { "routing" : { "allocation" : { "include" : { "_tier_preference" : "data_content" } } }, "number_of_shards" : "5" , "provided_name" : "product-data-index" , "max_result_window" : "30000" , "creation_date" ...